Beachbum

I agree with Dianah check with the hospital policy, The same precautions that go toward the Radiology techs. go for you also. You will be wearing radiation badges, and you should have one that goes around your stomach area. Going into Rad nursing, radiation safety is a topic you need to be educated in. Get with one of the Rad techs and use there textbooks to get information. Also check ou the arna website.

We do the same. We try to get a 20ga in the ac if possible, but like you said with the older population and we have so many cancer patients we are happy to get a 22ga. We also decrease the ml/sec if we use a smaller ga catheter.